Lucy Atkins is an award winning British author and journalist. She has written four novels, most recently the critically acclaimed MAGPIE LANE (2020), as well as seven non-fiction books, two of which have won national awards. Her books are published internationally and THE NIGHT VISITOR (2017) has been optioned for television.
Lucy is a tutor on the creative writing Masters degree at Oxford University. She judged the Costa Book Awards and is a book critic for The Sunday Times. She has a background in literary and feature journalism: she has worked for Amnesty International (UK), and the Times Literary Supplement and has written for UK newspapers including The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times and The Telegraph, and many UK magazines.
Lucy studied English at Oxford University and was a Fulbright Scholar to the USA for an M.A. in English and American literature. She has lived in Boston, Seattle and Philadelphia, and is now based in Oxford, UK, with her family. To get in touch, see Contacts page.
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